Design advise needed on editing and filtering a datagridview

Question

I have a design question that involves DataGridView and DataTable, bound by a BindingSource in a WinForms application. The DataTable is populated by a sql server table.

Answer 1

I just found an even better way to filter the DataGridViewfrom a question (yes it was a question) posted by mj82:

Filtering DataGridView without changing datasource

This was the most helpful part of the question.

DataTable dt = new DataTable();
BindingSource bs = new BindingSource();

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    dt.Columns.Add("id", typeof(int));
    dt.Columns.Add("country", typeof(string));

    dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 1, "Belgium" });
    dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 2, "France" });
    dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 3, "Germany" });
    dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 4, "Spain" });
    dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 5, "Swiss" });
    dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 6, "United Kingdom" });

    bs.DataSource = dt;
    dataGridView1.DataSource = bs;
}

private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show("DataSource type BEFORE = " + dataGridView1.DataSource.GetType().ToString());

    bs.Filter = string.Format("country LIKE '%{0}%'", textBox1.Text);

    MessageBox.Show("DataSource type AFTER = " + dataGridView1.DataSource.GetType().ToString());
}